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1. Album of landscape drawings by Mason, Gilpin, and Holland [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 G42 797
- Image Count:
- 70
- Abstract:
- A collection of 75 wash drawings and watercolor landscape drawings, mostly unidentified and unsigned. Later annotations attribute the drawings to Mason, Gilpin and Holland, and identify specific places in the British Isles: Mason's Arched Rock on the Isle of Wright, Bolton Abbey; Gilpin's Windermere Lake; Summer House Aston Rectory,Yorkshire. Possibly drawings executed for Gilpin's series "Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year ..." or for his "Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of south Wales, &c." Also laid in is an engraving in blue ink on a paper doily etched with the title: Maths.Huelin & Ca. Malaga. Some drawings dated in pencil on mount, in a later hand, "1797".
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger. and Bound in three-quarters green morocco with marble boards and label on front cover stamped in gold tooling and gold lettering "Drawing"; with metal clasp.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Album of landscape drawings by Mason, Gilpin, and Holland [art original].
2. Ideal landscape [art original]
- Creator:
- Knight, Ellis Cornelia, 1757-1837, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1792]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 192. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso., Mounted above on the same page is another drawing by the same artist: View of the lake and Temple of Esculapius in Villa Borghese, Rome, 1792., and Mounted on page 192 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Topic):
- Rivers and Stone bridges
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ideal landscape [art original]
3. Souvenirs de l'Angleterre, with a letter from Madame Delahaye, 1826-1850
- Creator:
- Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848, artist
- Call Number:
- LWL MSS 30
- Image Count:
- 25
- Abstract:
- An album of twenty watercolors recording the 1826 journey to England by the Delahaye family of Pierrefitte, France. A family friend, Gaudissard traveled with them from their home near Saint-Denis, carefully recording the sights they saw across the Channel. His drawings include landscapes, cityscapes, and various views, each inscribed with a caption. Scenes of London include a depiction of a typical city street, St. James's Palace from the Pall Mall, the interior of the Tower of London, and the interior of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Palace. He captured the countryside near Richmond, the seaside at Brighton and the Royal Pavilion there, Windsor Castle and a view of London as seen from Windsor, and Christopher Wren's Monument in London, as seen from Greenwich. Gaudissard shows his pictorial range with a night scene of Brighton and a depiction of a strenuous boat race on the Thames. Among other images are the Duke of Devonshire's menagerie at Chiswick House, only in existence between 1811 and 1836, featuring an elephant and a monkey, and an Anglican priest in the pulpit at Canterbury. Two drawings depict friends at Pierrefitte wave goodbye to the Delahaye carriage as it departs, and then welcoming the family with open arms upon their return home. The album's frontispiece features a classic coach-and-four alighting into the English mist, and at the end a record of the family's departure from Dover, its White Cliffs in the background, aboard an early steamship and Accompanied by a 16-page letter dated 1826, written in French, addressed by Madame L. Delahaye to her friend Alexandrine upon the Delahayes' return from England. The letter recounts the family's journey in great detail from start to finish, and includes several mentions of the lively participation of Gaudissard. Also present is a single leaf, written approximately 1850, describing the genesis of the album and brief biographical sketch of the artist
- Alternative Title:
- Souvenirs de l'Angleterre
- Description:
- The caricaturist Michel René Gaudissard (1774-1848) used the pseudonym Godissart de Cari (or G de Cari...). He was called the "French Hogarth" and "the greatest master of French caricature during the early 19th century" (Deberdt). He is principally known for his biting caricatures of the English and their odd habits, especially as seen in his collection of engravings Le Musée grotesque (1816-1820)., In French., Title gold stamped on front cover and from text in the first drawing entitled "Frontispiece.", Bound in contemporary brown sheep, gilt spine and gilt cover borders with title stamped on front: Souvenirs de l'Angleterre. With binder's ticket on inside front cover: Rue de Cléry, no. 7 pres celle Montmatre, Binant, Md. de Papiers, Fournitures de Burcaux de Paris., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- France, England, and London (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Godissart de Cari, 1774-1848.
- Subject (Topic):
- Drawing, French
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Souvenirs de l'Angleterre, with a letter from Madame Delahaye, 1826-1850
4. VI drawings by H.W. Burgess presented to his much esteemed pupil Miss Bell. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Burgess, Henry William, approximately 1792-1844, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1817.
- Call Number:
- Folio 633 817 B955
- Image Count:
- 15
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An album of seven pencil sketches, mounted with a neat ink borders. beginning with a title page, a view in a grove with trees and with two figures (one seated and pointing, the other with a portfolio under his arm) in conversation and a rock, the face of which is inscribed with the album title. The six drawings folllowing are romanticised topographical subjects including castles, gates, and ecclesiastical buildings, in ruins, enveloped in trees and foliage, from the vantage point of a river or allong the roadside
- Alternative Title:
- Six drawings by H.W. Burgess and 6 drawings by H.W. Burgess
- Description:
- William Henry Burgess (circa 1792-1844), landscape painter to William IV and the teacher of John Leech and Thackeray., In English., Title from title page drawing., Miss Bell unidentified., Bound in contemporary blue straight grain morocco, with decorated boards, upper cover lettered in gilt., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and England.
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc, Drawing, British, Abbeys, Castles & palaces, and Religious facilities
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > VI drawings by H.W. Burgess presented to his much esteemed pupil Miss Bell. [graphic]
5. View of Richmond Hill with some imaginary buildings [art original]
- Creator:
- Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1758]
- Call Number:
- SH Views M92 no. 4+ Box 205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the Thames River with Richmond Hill in the distance. In the right foreground, a row boat pulls away from shore with a rower and his female passenger. A party of two women and a man are left on shore; behind them a man and woman talk over the fence that separates a grove of trees from the shoreline. Further down the river a boat sails away from the viewer
- Alternative Title:
- View of Richmond Hill from Twickenham
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image in Horace Walpole's hand., Strasburg lily watermark., and On verso, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: "H. Walpole". Also with a pressmark[?]: E895.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Richmond upon Thames (London, England) and Thames River (England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of Richmond Hill with some imaginary buildings [art original]
6. View of Richmond Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrace at Strawberry Hill, 1772 [art original]
- Creator:
- Pars, William, 1742-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3678.44++ (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of the trees and field leading down to the Thames River. In the distance is Richmond Hill and Pope's home on the left, as seen from the terrace of Horace Walpole's villa, Strawberry Hill. In the foreground, a cowman sits against the nearest tree as two cows lay in the grass, a third cow stands nearby
- Alternative Title:
- View of Richmond-Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrass at Strawberry Hill, 1772
- Description:
- Title, date and artist information written in ink below image, in an unidentified hand. and Inscribed by Horace Walpole on the verso: View of Richmond-hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house, from the terrass at Strawberry-hill, by Mr. Pars 1772.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England, Twickenham., and Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of Richmond Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrace at Strawberry Hill, 1772 [art original]
7. View of Richmond-hill, taken from the terrass of Lady Ferrars at Twickenham [art original]
- Creator:
- Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1757]
- Call Number:
- SH Views M92 no. 3++ Box 300
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the Thames River with Richmond Hill in the distance as seen from the terrace of Lady Ferrars at Twickenham. In the foreground on the lawn a man leads a horse that has a rider on its back. On the river two men maneuver a punt boat on the left while on the right on the shore a man leads a team of three horses that pull a rope attached to a sail boat on the river
- Alternative Title:
- View of Richmond Hill, taken from the terrace of Lady Ferrars at Twickenham
- Description:
- Title, artist, and date written in ink on verso in Horace Walpole's hand., On verso in lower right corner, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: H. Walpole. Also pressmark[?]: "E.50.", and Partial visbile watermark: "C Blauw".
- Subject (Geographic):
- Richmond upon Thames (London, England) and Twickenham (London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of Richmond-hill, taken from the terrass of Lady Ferrars at Twickenham [art original]
8. View of the cottage at Strawberry-hill from the west 1774 [art original]
- Creator:
- Pars, William, 1742-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1774]
- Call Number:
- SH Views P266 no. 6+ Box 205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of the cottage from the garden at Strawberry Hill shows a worker pushing a wheelbarrow on the right with other workers in the distance on the left. In the distance, beyond the grove of trees the viewed sees the Thames and Richmond Hill in the distance
- Alternative Title:
- View of the cottage at Strawberry Hill from the west
- Description:
- Inscribed by Horace Walpole on verso with the artist's name, title, and date.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Twickenham.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Dwellings, Estates, and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of the cottage at Strawberry-hill from the west 1774 [art original]
9. View of the lake and Temple of Esculapius in Villa Borghese, Rome, 1792 [art original]
- Creator:
- Knight, Ellis Cornelia, 1757-1837, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1792]
- Call Number:
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title:
- Page 192. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Alternative Title:
- View of the lake and Temple of Aesculapius in Villa Borghese, Rome, 1792
- Description:
- Title and statement of responsibility from contemporary annotation in pencil on verso., Mounted below on the same page is another drawing by the same artist: Ideal landscape., and Mounted on page 192 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
- Subject (Geographic):
- Villa Borghese (Rome, Italy : Park)
- Subject (Name):
- Temple of Aesculapius (Rome, Italy),
- Subject (Topic):
- Lakes and Temples
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > View of the lake and Temple of Esculapius in Villa Borghese, Rome, 1792 [art original]
